Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by... More about The Bookplate in Australia. Its Inspiration and Development

Hawthorn, The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Number 24 of only 50 signed copies. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his George Perrottet-designed 1942 bookplate (signed in pencil by the artist). Loosely inserted, tipped in on separate sheets, are another two Hunter etched bookplates. The subjects are... More about The Bookplates of William Hunter, Etcher

London, Zwemmer Gallery, 1967. Number 176 of 300 copies numbered, dated (London, 1967) and signed by the artist. The technique of sfumato ('the use of carbon from a naked candle flame or from an oil lamp as an aid to painting') is discussed in the book in an article by Sheldon Williams (pages 11-14).More about Sfumato. Paintings and Drawings of David Boyd

Adelaide, Lidums Art Gallery, 1973. The edition comprised 1250 numbered copies with the artist's signature on an adhesive label (also stamped with the same number). This is copy number 1252, thus out-of-series, but loosely inserted in the book is one of the adhesive labels signed boldly in blue ink by... More about The Art of David Boyd

Bondi Junction, ETT Imprint, 1998. Number 78 of only 100 copies signed by both the author and the artist, with an original signed etching (187 × 190 mm). It is hand-bound by Robyn Tait, who has signed and inscribed the verso of the title in pencil 'For Alec'. This book... More about Australia Suite. Drawings by Garry Shead

Sydney, 'Composed, Bound and Printed by the Artist at the Studio 38A Pitt St', 1936. Number 20 of only 25 signed copies, with the bookplates signed as well. This very rare item is not to be confused with another work with the same title, produced in the same year by... More about Etched Bookplates

[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. This copy is signed and dated (10 April 1970) by the artist under his frontispiece portrait; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. He died in 1983 at the age of... More about James Cant

[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. This copy is signed on the title page by the author, and signed and dated (1970) by James Cant, under his frontispiece photographic portrait. (The handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s.)... More about James Cant

Roseville, Craftsman House, 1989. Number 40 of only 75 copies signed by Kevin Connor; a large colour lithograph, 'Evening Light, King St, Newtown' (paper size 490 × 645 mm), numbered and signed by the artist, accompanies the book.More about Kevin Connor

Richmond, Richmond Hill Press and Collector Reproductions, 1979. Number 92 of 500 copies signed by the artist. 'Sir Russell Drysdale has created 45 original pen and wash drawings, line drawings and watercolours recollecting the people and places which have inspired his art through a lifetime'.More about Russell Drysdale

Frenchs Forest, The Craftsman's Press, 1984. The deluxe edition; this is number 3 of only 200 copies signed by the artist. Loosely inserted, and as issued, is an original signed etching, numbered to match (paper size 330 × 255 mm; image size 200 × 165 mm). From the collection of... More about The Art of Brian Dunlop

Frenchs Forest, The Craftsman's Press, 1984. Number 12 of 200 copies signed by the artist; loosely inserted is an original signed and numbered etching (paper size 330 × 255 mm; image size 200 × 165 mm).More about The Art of Brian Dunlop

Sydney, Art Academy, 1988. One of 200 copies numbered and signed by the artist, containing a numbered, signed and captioned linocut ('Sharyn's Shawl'). Loosely inserted is a catalogue for the 1982 retrospective exhibition of the artist's drawings and linocuts (octavo, 8 pages plus the colour pictorial wrappers - 70 items... More about Edward Heffernan. His Life and Art

South Melbourne, Richard Griffin, 1984 [first thus]. One of only 600 copies of the Collectors' Edition signed by Hodgkinson and issued with one of six different original etchings (each in a limited edition of 100 and also signed by the artist). In this copy the book is not numbered, but... More about Sepik Diary